Media Studies

Rachel Lalwani
Aanchal jain (95)
Utsav Nagori (112)
Geet Gangwani
Rishika Bishwas
TWO STEP FLOW THEORY
CASE STUDY- GRETA THUNBERG

Greta Thunberg is a Swedish

environmental activist on
climate change whose
campaigning has gained
international recognition.
 About her

● Greta Thunberg was born on 3 January 2003 in Stockholm.

● Thunberg says she first heard about climate change in 2011, when
she was 8 years old, and could not understand why so little was being
done about it.
● Three years later she became depressed and lethargic, stopped
talking and eating, and was eventually diagnosed with Asperger
syndrome, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD),and selective
mutism.
● Thunberg said she first got the idea of a climate strike after
school shootings in the United States in February 2018.
 How did this all start?
August 20, 2018
Swedish student Thunberg, then
aged 15, skips school to protest
outside parliament for more action
against climate change.
November 2018
More than 17,000 students in 24
countries take part in Friday school
strikes. Thunberg begins speaking at
high-profile events across Europe,
including United Nations climate talks in
Poland.
August 26, 2018
She is joined by fellow students,
teachers and parents at another
protest and begins attracting media
attention for her climate campaign.
September 2018
Thunberg begins a regular 'strike' from classes every
Friday to protest climate issues. She invites other
students to join her weekly "Fridays for Future"
campaign by staging walkouts at their own schools.
 February 2019
Protests directly inspired by
Thunberg take place across more
than 30 countries, from Sweden to
Brazil, India and the United States.
Aug. 1, 2019
Thunberg hits back at "hate and
conspiracy campaigns" after she was
described as a "deeply disturbed
messiah" leading a "cult" in an opinion
column by conservative Australian
commentator Andrew Bolt.
March 2019
Thunberg is nominated for a Nobel
Peace Prize. The number of students
taking part in school strikes hits more
than 2 million people across 135
countries.
May 2019
Thunberg is named one of the world's most
influential people by Time magazine,
appearing on its cover. "Now I am speaking to
the whole world," she wrote on Twitter.
 Aug. 14, 2019
Aug. 5, 2019

Some 450 young "Fridays for Future"
climate activists from 37 European
countries gather for a summit in
Lausanne, Switzerland to discuss the
movement's development and work on
international cooperation.
Thunberg sets sail from Britain for
the United States to take part in a
United Nations climate summit.
Meanwhile, the total number of
climate strikers reaches 3.6 million
people across 169 countries.

Aug. 28, 2019

Thunberg arrives at New York Harbor in a

zero-carbon emissions vessel, completing
a near-140 day journey from England to
take part in a UN climate summit.
 Sept. 13, 2019

Thunberg takes her mission to U.S. President Donald

Trump's doorstep with a protest outside the White House.

Sept. 18, 2019

Youth climate activists are poised to join Thunberg in

protest on the steps of the Supreme Court to urge political
leaders and lawmakers to support their fight and act to
phase out fossil fuels.
Initiatives
● Thunberg is known for her blunt, matter-of-fact speaking manner, both in public and to
political leaders and assemblies, in which she urges immediate action to address what
she describes as the climate crisis.

● On 20 August 2018, Thunberg, who had just started ninth grade, decided not to attend
school until the 2018 Swedish general election on 9 September; her protest began after
the heat waves and wildfires during Sweden's hottest summer in at least 262 years.

● Her demands were that the Swedish government reduce carbon emissions in
accordance with the Paris Agreement, and she protested by sitting outside the Riksdag
every day for three weeks during school hours with the sign Skolstrejk för klimatet
(school strike for the climate). She also handed out leaflets that stated: "I am doing this
because you adults are shitting on my future.

● At home, Thunberg convinced her parents to adopt several lifestyle choices to reduce
their own carbon footprint, including giving up air travel and not eating meat.
● Thunberg has been recognized for her climate initiative and for having started a worldwide
movement where young people make school strikes for the climate. She talks about how
she influenced her family’s lifestyle and got her mother, opera singer Malena Ernman, to stop
flying. Now she does musicals instead in Stockholm.

● Thunberg spoke at the UN climate summit in Katowice in Poland and next week she takes
the train to Davos in Switzerland – to participate in the World Economic Forum.

● “Greta Thunberg’s initiative that the school strike for the climate has spread throughout The
World and she believes that the climate issue is black and white:

● “The solution is so easy that a five-year-old can understand it. We must STOP THE
EMISSIONS.”

● Her commitment to the climate has affected the family’s lifestyle, and today her parents have
stopped flying.

● “When my mother was dependent on flying for her job, she had to change her career
in some way.”
● #FridaysForFuture is a movement that began in
August 2018, after Greta Thunberg sat in front of
the Swedish parliament every schoolday for
three weeks, to protest against the lack of action
on the climate crisis. She posted what she was
doing on Instagram and Twitter and it soon went
viral.
● On the 8th of September, Greta decided to
continue striking every Friday until the Swedish
policies provided a safe pathway well under
2-degree C, i.e. in line with the Paris agreement.
● The hashtags #FridaysForFuture and
#Climatestrike spread and many students and
adults began to protest outside of their
parliaments and local city halls all over the world.
This has also inspired the Belgium Thursday
school strikes.
● On 23 September 2019, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) hosted a press
conference where Thunberg joined 15 other children and together the group announced
they had filed a lawsuit against five nations that are not on track to meet the emission
reduction targets they committed to in their Paris Agreement pledges: Argentina, Brazil,
France, Germany, and Turkey.

● The lawsuit is challenging the nations under the UN's Convention on the Rights of the
Child (specifically the right to life, health, and peace). If the complaint is successful, the
countries will be asked to respond, but any suggestions are not legally binding
● Greta Thunberg has accepted a ride across the Atlantic by boat to attend two key
climate conferences.The teenager will make the journey aboard the Malizia II, a
high-speed 18-metre (60ft) yacht built to race around the globe.

● “We’ll be sailing across the Atlantic Ocean from the UK to New York in mid August,”
she tweeted.

● Thunberg refuses to fly because of the environmental impact of air travel.

Global strike
● The Global Climate Strike comes just before countries were gathered at the United
Nations for the Climate Action Summit on September 23 . A second worldwide
strike was planned for September 27.

● Young people from around the world led a massive coordinated strike from school
on Friday, September 20, to protest government and business inaction on climate
change. It is likely to be one of the largest environmental protests in history.

● Thunberg has become an increasingly influential figurehead and voice for youth
climate angst and activism. Since she no longer flies because of the aviation
industry’s high carbon emissions, she was offered the opportunity to travel to the
US on a zero-emissions sailboat. Last week, she was in Washington, DC,
speaking before Congress and meeting with US lawmakers, including House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), before she headed to New York City for the strikes
and the summit.
● It’s a big moment for Thunberg and the legions of youth and adult activists and
leaders she’s inspired since August 2018, when she began skipping school on
Fridays to protest outside the Swedish Parliament. Thousands of young people in
the movement, called Fridays for Future, now strike every Friday to demand more
aggressive action from their governments and the international community. The last
large-scale coordinated climate strike on May 24 drew participants from 130
countries.

● But it was truly a global strike and it was the movement’s largest yet, with 2,500
events scheduled in over 150 countries. Activists also used the strike to pressure
governments on local issues.
Global strikes all over the world
● Australia saw marches in every major city, with heaps of support from society rallying
behind the strikes. Faith groups, including Uniting and Anglican Churches, were coming out
in force. A number of unions organised their members to attend. And over 2,000
businesses were coming together to support the strike and allowing staff to leave work.
Even local councils and Victoria’s state governments were allowing staff to attend the
demonstrations.

● In Nepal there was a rally highlighting the climate impacts on the Himalayas and opposing
the government’s plan to start seismic tests for hydrocarbon drilling in the Himalayas.
● In Bangladesh, protests in Sundarbans was led by communities living near the
under-construction Rampal coal plant.
● In India, widespread action was happening in over 70 locations.
● At least 2,000 people across the Philippines — students, indigenous peoples, and people
from coal-affected communities and costal villages — were gearing up for a record number
of 15 youth-led climate strikes.
● Ukraine was a bright rally of loud chants and colourful, diverse messaging on placards and
banners demanding a green course for the future. In Georgia, schoolchildren, students,
teachers, local activists, government representatives, media, and NGOs took part in the
March for Climate. Actions also took place in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
and Armenia. In Turkey were loads of actions planned, including a gathering with music
and workshops led by students in Istanbul.

● More than 1,240 actions was held in Europe across seven countries. This was Germany’s
biggest day of climate action ever, with marches and blockades in over 500 towns and
cities. In Sweden, a transport company stopped work for its 52,000 employees. In the UK,
key unions were calling for a 30-minute stop work. There were major actions across the
country, including a minute of silence at a Primera League football match. Large-scale
actions were also happening in Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam.

● There was mobilisations in every country in Latin America, including countries that have
not participated in climate action before such as Cuba and Venezuela! From Brazil right
up to Mexico, there were protests: A massive march in the south of Brazil against the
proposal of the biggest coal mine in the country. Artistic performances in Colombia and
Costa Rica. Indigenous mobilisations in Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru. People in Chile
were going big against all coal plants in the country. Argentina and Uruguay used the
opportunity to apply pressure to the candidates ahead of presidential elections in October.
● The climate strike in Africa, #AfrikaVuka, expected huge turnout, with over 100 actions
planned across the continent. In Nairobi, Kenya, interfaith alliances and schools resisted
against fossil fuel businesses and advocate for rapid integration of renewable solutions. In
Senegal, a climate camp was followed by a march to call on policymakers to stop the coal
power plant in Bargny from operating. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, there was a
mobilisation of communities, civil society, and young people calling on the president to
adhere to conservation laws.

● Nigerians took to the streets to demand that policymakers make greater strides in
environmental policies and laws. Cote d’Ivoire saw a march and protest in two locations
against a proposed coal plant in San Pedro. South Africa started in Johannesburg with a
peaceful march calling for the acceleration of a just transition towards a low-carbon,
renewable energy future, followed by a week of positive climate action in their
communities, from beach clean-ups to urban gardening and recycled art workshops. The
strikes were supported by the South African Federation of Trade Unions, which organises
800,000 workers.

● In the United States, a monumental mobilisation saw over 1,000 protests across the
country, taking #StrikeWithUs outside of the major cities to every corner of the nation. New
York public schools had given permission for all 1.1 million students to skip classes.
Global strike in India
Print Media

The Economic Times 25th Sept 2019

Daily mail 23rd sept

The Guardian
(British Daily Newspaper)
24th September
People magazine 27th sept
The Times of India 21st September 2019
The Hindu 29th August
Hindustan Times 30th September 2019
The Indian Express 30th September 2019
JOSH 25TH SEPTEMBER
PUNE MIRROR 23RD JUNE
GUJARAT SAMACHAR 23RD SEPTEMBER
IE BANGLA 26TH SEPTEMBER
GQ OCTOBER 2019
Digital media
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
THE QUINT
BUZZFEED NEWS
THE WIRE
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● NEWS NATION (HINDI)

● NDTV (ENGLISH)
● INDIA TODAY
● NEWS 18 INDIA (HINDI)

REGIONAL

● PUTHIYATHALAIMURAI (MALYALAM)
● SUN NEWS (TAMIL)
● DAINIK JAGARAN (HINDI)
● NEWS 18 (BANGLA)
● PTC NEWS (PUNJABI)
Impact in India
She also addressed our honorable Prime
Minister, saying that if any action is not
taken now , then he would be recognized
as a villain in future and asked him to
work on climate change instead of just
glorifying small old victories.

But the amount of backlash she received

by most of the Indians is ridiculous as
she’s trying to put her point across and
modi-supporters are find faults in this
too.

Our Prime Minister still has not replied to

her.
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